ball and claw foot

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21:54 Oct 24, 2008
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Art/Literary - Furniture / Household Appliances
Additional field(s): Architecture, Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
English term or phrase: ball and claw foot
Definition from Traditional Enterprises, LLC:
A carved foot motif that resembling a ball or egg held in an eagle, crane, dragon or lion's claw. Most associated with 18th-century American and English furniture, the ball and claw foot's origins were in China as the dragon claw clutching a pearl, crystal ball or jewel.

Example sentence(s):
  • Ball and claw feet are the most familiar kind of traditional style bath foot. The foot consists of a claw or talon in relief grasping a ball which rests on the floor. Ball and claw feet vary greatly in the amount of detail and may be more or less ornate. buzzle.com
  • This is a very rare small foot stool. It is 10 1/2 in diameter and 5 tall. This is the way I purchased it, but I am sure at one time it probably had a rounded dome top cushion. The excellent cast ball and claw feet are in great condition. Scripps Networks, Inc.
  • Alastair A. Stair takes you on a journey across cultures in this history of the ball-and-claw foot and its regional variations, in terms of how the muscles are carved, how the claw is angled or curved, and the overall tension shown in the piece. The Tauton Press
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4 +1鹰爪抓珠式
Li Rui
5有抓球爪式腳的家具的
kerene


  

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鹰爪抓珠式


Definition from own experience or research:
是一种深受中国风格影响的家具脚型,其灵感来源是来自于中国青铜器上的龙爪抓着宝珠的图腾形象,传入西方后,西方工匠将龙爪改为以鸟禽的脚爪为主,早期的工匠为了追求工艺技术的极致,花费大量的时间及精力,做出如图一中脚爪及宝珠中间呈镂空状态的鹰爪抓珠。

Example sentence(s):
  • 紫檀木质。搭脑为巴洛克式,靠背板作瓶形,上雕西洋花纹。靠背边框及扶手亦为西式。束腰上雕卷云纹,曲边牙条上雕西化的玉宝珠,腿上部雕西洋花纹。三弯腿,鹰爪抓珠式足,由带龟脚的托泥承托。 - 博宝网  
  • 背板作瓶形,雕西洋花纹.靠背边框及扶手亦西洋式与巴洛克式塔脑相连,座面下束腰雕卷云纹.曲边牙条上雕西化了的玉宝珠纹.三弯腿,上部雕西洋花纹.鹰爪抓珠式...... - 天下供求  
  • 靠背板作瓶形,雕西洋花纹.靠背边框及扶手亦西洋式与巴洛克式塔脑相连,座面下束腰雕卷云纹.曲边牙条上雕西化了的玉宝珠纹.三弯腿,上部雕西洋花纹.鹰爪抓珠式足,下承带龟脚托泥. - 家居时代  

Explanation:
也有翻做"兽爪抓珠",但个人觉得西方所做多为鸟抓,还是翻做鹰爪抓珠为宜。
Li Rui
China
Local time: 15:54
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
Notes to answerer
philgoddard What does it say after this? That would presumably help to explain "colturali". I'm not clear whether it refers to the culture of farming, culture in general, cultivation practices, or something else.

Barbara Cochran, MFA Il censimento del 1982 ha evidenziato un mutamento di importanza fra le varie colture: al primo posto, come superficie agricola utilizzata, si collocano ora i cereali (che, grazie all'espansione del mais e del riso, coprono pressoché un terzo del totale); pascoli e prati permanenti scivolano al secondo posto, con una superficie che non raggiunge il 29%; le colture legnose, in particolare vite e olivo, sono pressoché stabili, mentre l'orticoltura e più in generale le coltivazioni forzate (in serra o in tunnel) continuano a crescere. Inoltre i dati dei censimenti agricoli registrano una notevole espansione del bosco, che ormai è giunto a occupare il 36% del totale, e un ulteriore incremento dei terreni improduttivi. Sullo sfondo resta costante la diminuzione graduale del numero delle aziende, della superficie aziendale totale e della superficie agricola utilizzata. Occorre rilevare che l'agricoltura italiana deve ormai fare i conti col crescente peso delle grandi imprese agroalimentari multinazionali che, imponendo le loro logiche di mercato, finiscono coll'influenzarne profondamente le scelte.

philgoddard So it means crops or cultivation.

Barbara Cochran, MFA I think they are talking about farming trends, i.e., the kinds of changes that have taken place with the passing of the years.


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有抓球爪式腳的家具的


Definition from own experience or research:
抓球爪式脚是一种家具例如桌子的脚的样式,具有浓郁的中国风,以中国最原始的雕刻--一只小鸟的爪子抓住一颗球体为创作意念.

Example sentence(s):
  • 与市面上流行的明清古董家具相比,“洋化”是老红木家具的显著特征,表现在家具体积的增大、腿爪的变化,兽爪抓球式腿爪和三弯头腿、机械加工痕迹明显的镟木半柱形式的腿足是高档老红木家具的必备特征. - 中国红木家居网  

Explanation:
我认为抓球爪式的家具在古代是一种地位的象征,就如同龙一样象征着中国的九五之尊.
kerene
China
Local time: 15:54
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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